Coltrane started his career appearing alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984). In 1987, he starred in the BBC miniseries Tutti Frutti alongside Thompson, for which he received his first British Academy Television Award for Best Actor nomination. Coltrane then gained national prominence starring as criminal psychologist Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the ITV television series Cracker (1993–2006), a role which saw him receive the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in three consecutive years (1994 to 1996). In 2006, Coltrane came eleventh in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars, voted by the public. In 2016 he starred in the four-part Channel 4 series National Treasure alongside Julie Walters, a role for which he received a British Academy Television Award nomination.
Coltrane appeared in two films for George
Harrison's Handmade Films: the Neil
Jordan neo-noir Mona Lisa (1986) with Bob
Hoskins, and Nuns on the Run with Eric Idle.
He also appeared in Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptation Henry V (1989), the comedy Let It Ride (1989), Roald Dahl's Danny, the Champion of the
World (1989), Steven Soderbergh's crime-comedy thriller Ocean's
Twelve (2004), Rian Johnson's caper film The Brothers Bloom (2008), Mike Newell's Dickens
film adaptation Great Expectations (2012), and Emma
Thompson's biographical film Effie
Gray (2014). He was also known for his voice performances in the
animated films The Tale of Despereaux (2008),
and Pixar's Brave
(2012).
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